Monday, December 9, 2013

Cone of Shame

Albert Tiger has a little chewing problem. Well, it's not so much chewing alone as much as chewing and swallowing. See, he ate some pieces of a soft toy and also bit off several chunks of a puppy teething, oh and he played Italian dinner with a rug in the backseat of my car that I put there to keep the muddy paw prints off of the upholstery.

Scott took him Wisconsin Veterinary Referral Service yesterday, yes the Emergency Vet over in Waukesha.

They did an initial evaluation but could not determine anything as he was so dehydrated. After several hours on an IV they knew there was an obstruction and they had to perform surgery before they lost him.

Fast forward 24 hours and add the Cone of Shame, and Albert-Tiger is home and looking sharp, stoned, better. His tail is wagging and he's up and around. And bumping the cone of shame into everything.

Here's a couple of snaps.

Awww.

Can I ask just a tiny favor? I know that it's almost Christmas and you probably have a lot of gifts to purchase, but do you have a couple of extra tens or maybe just a "fin", you could send Albert-Tiger's way. See, his surgery to unstick the blockage was about $2,500. We could use a little help as we are a private rescue. If you visit our website, you can click on the donate button (but there is a 3.5% charge to do so). I'm asking if you could, I know its a pain, to do it the old fashioned way. In an envelope through "snail mail".The address is: Fluffy Dog Rescue, W295 N8437 Camp Whitcomb Rd., Hartland, WI 53029Here is the link to the website too: http://rescue.fluffydog.net/Donations_fundraisers.html

About Me

From the time she was a little girl, Michelle Grade loved dogs; sometimes more than people. Dog people will understand. At one point in her educational career, she wanted to be a veterinarian but discovered she didn't want to sit still that long.
She became a wife, a mother, an employee at a job she thought wasn't half bad, she was a Sunday School teacher but something was still missing in her life. Enter, fostering stray dogs. Her house is always a wreck and there are always piles of clean and dirty laundry to manage but fostering filled that hole. These days it seems strange if the only dogs are the two resident dogs at The Lodge.
Through fostering she's made the most amazing friends, not only the wonderful people that adopt our fosters but also the other volunteers that work to bring them safely to their furever homes.
Thank you for thinking rescue. Thank you for reading.